My apologies. I made a mistake in saying that they are juvenile shorebirds this time of year and Marv Breece graciously corrected me. I listened to a podcast recently that talked about shorebird migration and I must have misheard what they explained. Although I did have it correct in my head that adults and juveniles migrate separately, it is the adults who start migrating back first and then the juveniles later.  Always learning and thankful to our great birders in the community who we can all learn from!


Garrett Haynes



On July 13, 2020 at 3:51 PM, Garrett Haynes <garrettwhaynes at me.com> wrote:


Hello Tweets,


M Street is a good place right now for juvenile shorebirds making their first journey south. The water in the main pond is drying up which is providing lots of good shallow water and mud for them. This morning there were:


- ~150 peeps: majority least sandpipers and a small percentage of western sandpipers
- 16 Long Billed Dowitchers (I really studied two that were off by themselves almost the whole time hoping I could ID them as short-billed as they seemed different at first, but ending up concluding in the end that they were long-billed. Somebody go prove me wrong!)
- 11 Greater Yellowlegs
- 5 Killdeer
- 1 Spotted Sandpiper


There was also a Semipalmated Sandpiper that was at M Street recently although I couldn't find one today. Hopefully other interesting shorebirds will start showing up too.


Happy Birding!


Garrett Haynes
Auburn, WA 
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